Airlines

• Transpacific between Los Angeles and Singapore: Singapore Airlines Service was very good.
• Singapore to Burma and Cambodia: Silkair, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines. Very good service.
• Within Burma: Yangon Airways, good regional service.
• Siem Reap to Phnom Penh: Siem Reap Airways, a sister airline to Bangkok Airways.

Country Information

Burma

• Lonely Planet: Burma
• CIA Burma

Cambodia

• CIA Cambodia

Food and Restaurants

One of the very pleasant surprises on both parts of our trip was the quality of the food. In three weeks, there was only one dish we didn't eat -- too spicy. Generally the food was mildly spiced, often with flavors new to us. If you like Thai and Chinese food and mild curry, you'll love the food in Burma and Cambodia.

Singapore

We arrived in Singapore late in the evening on our stop-over between Burma and Cambodia. We needed a short walk, a treat and a little relaxation before bed time. The Teaspa Tea Boutique was the perfect answer. In Raffles City, 252 North Bridge Road.

Burma

The best value on the trip was in Mandalay one afternoon when we had lunch "on our own (not included in the cost of the trip)." At the advice of our guide, we tried dim sum at Oriental House near our hotel. Ten of us had lunch for US$9.64. We had 58 servings; they only stopped serving when we said stop.

Cambodia

Restaurants

Siem Riep

Phnom Penh

Khmer Surin, #9, Street 57

The part of Thailand know as Surin

Khmer Kitchen, very similar to Khmer Surin. (All of the Web sites I found for Khmer Kitchen listed it in Siem Reap.)

Food

Amok fish recipe, (fish or meat steamed in leaves with coconut milk)
The Cuisine of Cambodia, book

Hotels

Burma

Singapore Ambassador Transit Hotel in the airport
Singapore Carlton
Yangon Traders Hotel very nice, good food and washers and dryers.
Bagan Bagan Hotel very nice resort like, in the "old Bagan"
Mandalay Sedona Hotel very nice, centrally located
Inle Lake Lake View Resort a great place to end a vacation

Cambodia

Phnom Penh Sunway Hotel

Background Reading

CIA Fact book
Geography IQ, basic data
Detailed map from the University of Texas
Maps
Burma Forum Los Angeles, ..."your source for the latest information on current economic and political conditions in Burma (Myanmar), as well as American local government and corporate involvement."

Trip Reports

Jen and Dan

Vagabonding, an around the world, one year voyage with stops in Mayanmar and Cambodia.Check the "travelogue" for links to stories and pictures.

Cambodian Genocide

Yale University - Cambodian Genocide Program
"The Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, in which approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country's population), was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century."
Killing Fields
"The human costs of the revolution were horrific. In less than four years, a million people, or one Cambodian in seven, died from starvation, malnutrition and misdiagnosed or mistreated illnesses. Another 200,000, including everyone pictured here, were executed as enemies of the state. These are conservative estimates. The exact number, which could easily be higher will never be known."
Cambodia Genocide: Memories From Tuol Sleng Prison
"Arresting photographs of prisoners of the Khmer Rouge are a haunting reminder of the cruel regime that took more than a million lives in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. Peter Maguire, a Columbia University Ph.D. who has taught the law and theory of war at Columbia University and has conducted numerous interviews with the staff and survivors of the notorious Cambodian prison Tuol Sleng, is completing a book on Tuol Sleng for Columbia University Press."

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